Utah Gov. Spencer Cox walked the press line for the Sundance Film Festival premiere of “Train Dreams” at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday night. “It’s going to be an amazing festival, 41 years of Sundance here in Utah,” Cox said. “I think this is going to be the best one ever.”

Utah leaders, locals and longtime attendees of the Sundance Film Festival are making their final push to keep the world-renowned independent film festival in the state as its directors consider uprooting it.

As it searches for a new home beyond Park City, Utah, the film festival showcases a neo-western, a promising comedic debut and two unsettling documentaries.

Park City and Salt Lake City are continuing to guard many of the details of the bid to retain the Sundance Film Festival in the state. But the governor of Utah and the leader of the Park City Chamber/Bureau have recently entered the scene with limited information.

Gov. Spencer Cox and other Utah elected officials welcomed the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Saturday night. They attended a screening of “Train Dreams" directed by Clint Bentley.

PARK CITY, Utah — (AP) — With the 2025 Sundance ... to convince festival leadership and state officials to keep it in Park City, its home of 41 years. Gov. Spencer Cox said previously that ...

Naturally, The Verge is going to be taking in as much of Sundance as we can and posting bite-sized reviews of everything we see. We’ll also be posting longer reviews and sharing trailers, and you can follow along here to keep up with all of the news out of the festival.

The independent film festival has largely outgrown its home town, but the threat of its departure has some business owners and residents fighting to keep it.

Thus, Consequence is taking advantage of this wonderful opportunity by reviewing everything we can from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival — ranking these films as we go, because why not. We’ll be adding new reviews to the below throughout the online festival’s run (Jan.

Hailey Gates’ “Atropia” and Brittany Shyne’s “Seeds” claimed the top jury awards at Sundance, along with audience favorites "Twinless,” “DJ Ahmet” and “Prime Minister.”

Like many of the independent films that premiered at this muted edition of Sundance, “Atropia” has not yet sold to a distributor.

The war satire “Atropia” about actors in a military role-playing facility won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. dramatic competition, while the Dylan O’Brien movie “Twinless” got the coveted audience award.